Clearing the Font Cache - Suitcase Fusion 8 (MacOS)

JenniferG

October 05, 2018 15:37

Updated

Problem

Overtime, you may experience problems with fonts, such as garbled fonts, rendering issues, failure to load or even experience a sudden slow down when loading the program. Additionally, fonts not activating or remaining activate are all signs of caching troubles. When this happens, it’s a good time to clean out your font caches. Fortunately, Suitcase Fusion has this functionality build-in to the program. Cleaning the font caches within Suitcase Fusion will clean caches for your creative applications supported by Suitcase Fusion as well as your Mac operating system.

Solution

Before you clear your cache, you will need to know your computers system password to complete. To clear your Font Cache in Suitcase Fusion 8:

Quit all other applications

Launch Fusion

Choose File > Clean Font Caches

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Click Clean and Restart

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Why You Need To Clear Your Font Cache

Fonts are bits of data. The Mac operating system and font-intensive applications use cached memory to store information about fonts installed on your computer. When you access a font, font data is loaded from the cache when it is needed and discarded when finished. This allows the operating system and applications to use less memory to give you better performance.